Robin Rohwer
@robinrohwer.bsky.social
Microbial ecology and evolution. Special love for freshwater lakes & long-term time series 🌊🌊🌊 ➡️ ⏳⏳⌛ ➡️ 🧬🖥️ ➡️ 📈📊📝
postdoc @ UT Austin working remotely from the Pacific Northwest
(views my own)
robinrohwer.com
postdoc @ UT Austin working remotely from the Pacific Northwest
(views my own)
robinrohwer.com
keep getting tripped up that the updated @posit.co rstudio shortcut to run-the-current-function-definition has changed to find-in-console.
support page isn't updated (support.posit.co/hc/en-us/art...), has anyone else figured out the new keyboard shortcut? #rstats
support page isn't updated (support.posit.co/hc/en-us/art...), has anyone else figured out the new keyboard shortcut? #rstats
January 20, 2026 at 10:25 PM
keep getting tripped up that the updated @posit.co rstudio shortcut to run-the-current-function-definition has changed to find-in-console.
support page isn't updated (support.posit.co/hc/en-us/art...), has anyone else figured out the new keyboard shortcut? #rstats
support page isn't updated (support.posit.co/hc/en-us/art...), has anyone else figured out the new keyboard shortcut? #rstats
Wow this journal thinks their authors are so bad at writing that AI would do a better job
The ACM Digital Library, where a LOT of computing-related research is published (I'd say at least 75% of my own publications), is now not only providing (without consent of the authors and without opt-in by readers) AI-generated summaries of papers, but they appear as the *default* over abstracts.
December 18, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Wow this journal thinks their authors are so bad at writing that AI would do a better job
A fun vanity app to see a word cloud of your 2025 posts: anisota.net/harvest
@bsky.app should make this a button to help you decide whether to follow back 😜
@bsky.app should make this a button to help you decide whether to follow back 😜
December 12, 2025 at 1:10 AM
A fun vanity app to see a word cloud of your 2025 posts: anisota.net/harvest
@bsky.app should make this a button to help you decide whether to follow back 😜
@bsky.app should make this a button to help you decide whether to follow back 😜
Didn't know this ASLO program included undergrads as well, what a cool opportunity for research abroad!
ASLO is accepting applications from undergraduate students for the NSF funded 2026 Limnology and Oceanography Research Exchange and Mentoring Experience (#LOREX) program!
📅 Deadline: Jan 15, 2026
📍Orientation: May 12, 2026 in Montreal
🔗 Apply here: www.aslo.org/lorex/lorex-...
📅 Deadline: Jan 15, 2026
📍Orientation: May 12, 2026 in Montreal
🔗 Apply here: www.aslo.org/lorex/lorex-...
December 6, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Didn't know this ASLO program included undergrads as well, what a cool opportunity for research abroad!
Now there's TWO recent preprints on 16S primer choice!
V4-EXT (V4 with broader diversity?)
JEDI (V4-V5 validated for 18S as well?)
Haven't wrapped my head around which is which and they're both brand new so no in-paper discussion
(ppr links below)
V4-EXT (V4 with broader diversity?)
JEDI (V4-V5 validated for 18S as well?)
Haven't wrapped my head around which is which and they're both brand new so no in-paper discussion
(ppr links below)
December 2, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Now there's TWO recent preprints on 16S primer choice!
V4-EXT (V4 with broader diversity?)
JEDI (V4-V5 validated for 18S as well?)
Haven't wrapped my head around which is which and they're both brand new so no in-paper discussion
(ppr links below)
V4-EXT (V4 with broader diversity?)
JEDI (V4-V5 validated for 18S as well?)
Haven't wrapped my head around which is which and they're both brand new so no in-paper discussion
(ppr links below)
My friend knew this was a stressful week for me and dropped off this friendship bracelet 🤗😂 it is making me smile!
October 16, 2025 at 7:26 PM
My friend knew this was a stressful week for me and dropped off this friendship bracelet 🤗😂 it is making me smile!
Just noticed the Q&A comment boxes on peerJ articles now- wow! neat idea, curious if they'll be used
September 14, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Just noticed the Q&A comment boxes on peerJ articles now- wow! neat idea, curious if they'll be used
What's up with isme having uncorrected manuscripts up for months? How are papers "published in April" still not actually published? Since when was this a thing??
August 11, 2025 at 3:24 PM
What's up with isme having uncorrected manuscripts up for months? How are papers "published in April" still not actually published? Since when was this a thing??
This is cool. Have long thought journal reviews/publishing should follow the WI DNR earn-a-buck model
How to speed up peer review: make applicants mark one another
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#AcademicSky
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#AcademicSky
How to speed up peer review: make applicants mark one another
‘Distributed peer review’ of grants makes process more than twice as fast — and includes some cheat-prevention measures.
www.nature.com
July 1, 2025 at 8:42 PM
This is cool. Have long thought journal reviews/publishing should follow the WI DNR earn-a-buck model
New swag from the @taccutexas.bsky.social machine learning training 😂
So nice to be back in Texas for a week, see my labbies IRL and learn some new things
So nice to be back in Texas for a week, see my labbies IRL and learn some new things
May 20, 2025 at 3:36 PM
New swag from the @taccutexas.bsky.social machine learning training 😂
So nice to be back in Texas for a week, see my labbies IRL and learn some new things
So nice to be back in Texas for a week, see my labbies IRL and learn some new things
Why did I study bacterial evolution when I could have studied pasta evolution? 🍝🤤
Imagine the fieldwork...
Imagine the fieldwork...
As an introdcution to the phylogeny of filled pasta paper: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Evolution of the Italian pasta ripiena: the first steps toward a scientific classification - Discover Food
In this study, phylogenetic and biogeographic methods are used to investigate the evolutionary relationships between various types of Italian pasta ripiena (filled pasta) and related representatives f...
link.springer.com
May 14, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Why did I study bacterial evolution when I could have studied pasta evolution? 🍝🤤
Imagine the fieldwork...
Imagine the fieldwork...
What percent reads mapped to MAGs is "good" for soil or sediment samples?
is lower than water samples OK/expected due to more complex communities?
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🖥️🧬 microbiome, metagenomics
is lower than water samples OK/expected due to more complex communities?
🙏
🖥️🧬 microbiome, metagenomics
May 6, 2025 at 4:27 PM
What percent reads mapped to MAGs is "good" for soil or sediment samples?
is lower than water samples OK/expected due to more complex communities?
🙏
🖥️🧬 microbiome, metagenomics
is lower than water samples OK/expected due to more complex communities?
🙏
🖥️🧬 microbiome, metagenomics
@theatlantic.com has made reading a Newick tree as a text file into a fun game 😂
April 15, 2025 at 10:35 PM
@theatlantic.com has made reading a Newick tree as a text file into a fun game 😂
Excited to read this preprint full of my favorite topics!
-6 yr time series
-microbial phenology
-climatic extremes
(Marine samples from Northwestern Antarctic Peninsula)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
-6 yr time series
-microbial phenology
-climatic extremes
(Marine samples from Northwestern Antarctic Peninsula)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org
March 28, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Excited to read this preprint full of my favorite topics!
-6 yr time series
-microbial phenology
-climatic extremes
(Marine samples from Northwestern Antarctic Peninsula)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
-6 yr time series
-microbial phenology
-climatic extremes
(Marine samples from Northwestern Antarctic Peninsula)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Happy pi day! This year we made sinusoidal cucumbers in addition to the traditional pizza and pies 😋
March 16, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Happy pi day! This year we made sinusoidal cucumbers in addition to the traditional pizza and pies 😋
I love data.table so so much more than tidyverse. #rstats
Here's an example, similar length but count the total functions outside of core syntax:
dplyr: 10
group_by(), summarize(), sum(), arrange(), desc(), slice_head(), pull(), mutate(), ifelse(), %in%
data.table: 3
sum(), order(), %in%
Here's an example, similar length but count the total functions outside of core syntax:
dplyr: 10
group_by(), summarize(), sum(), arrange(), desc(), slice_head(), pull(), mutate(), ifelse(), %in%
data.table: 3
sum(), order(), %in%
February 7, 2025 at 9:12 PM
I love data.table so so much more than tidyverse. #rstats
Here's an example, similar length but count the total functions outside of core syntax:
dplyr: 10
group_by(), summarize(), sum(), arrange(), desc(), slice_head(), pull(), mutate(), ifelse(), %in%
data.table: 3
sum(), order(), %in%
Here's an example, similar length but count the total functions outside of core syntax:
dplyr: 10
group_by(), summarize(), sum(), arrange(), desc(), slice_head(), pull(), mutate(), ifelse(), %in%
data.table: 3
sum(), order(), %in%
Appreciating all the executive order news coverage on @science.org , noting its absence in [other leading journal's] news section.
👉👉👉 This is why we support society journals 👈👈👈
www.science.org/news/science...
👉👉👉 This is why we support society journals 👈👈👈
www.science.org/news/science...
ScienceInsider | News from Science | AAAS
News and analysis on science policy and the international research community—funding, controversies, and the societal impacts of science.
www.science.org
January 28, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Appreciating all the executive order news coverage on @science.org , noting its absence in [other leading journal's] news section.
👉👉👉 This is why we support society journals 👈👈👈
www.science.org/news/science...
👉👉👉 This is why we support society journals 👈👈👈
www.science.org/news/science...
Today is the one-year anniversary of finishing my recent @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social paper's final draft 📝. It is also my son's 1st birthday 🐣. Seems like a good time for an explainer thread! (1/n)
@archaeal.bsky.social @quendi.bsky.social @sarilog.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@archaeal.bsky.social @quendi.bsky.social @sarilog.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Two decades of bacterial ecology and evolution in a freshwater lake - Nature Microbiology
A 471-metagenome time series from Lake Mendota in Wisconsin, USA, reveals seasonal and decadal shifts in bacterial functional and ecological dynamics, especially in response to environmental extremes.
www.nature.com
January 22, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Today is the one-year anniversary of finishing my recent @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social paper's final draft 📝. It is also my son's 1st birthday 🐣. Seems like a good time for an explainer thread! (1/n)
@archaeal.bsky.social @quendi.bsky.social @sarilog.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@archaeal.bsky.social @quendi.bsky.social @sarilog.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Googled "is science broken right now" and... depressing. 🧪But seriously is anyone else unable to load @science.org journal articles rn?
January 13, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Googled "is science broken right now" and... depressing. 🧪But seriously is anyone else unable to load @science.org journal articles rn?
It has been amazing to continue this long-term research through a PhD with @quendi.bsky.social and a postdoc with @archaeal.bsky.social . Not everyone gets to see a project through like this as an ECR- thanks to supportive PI's and the NSF-PRFB fellowship that let me design my own postdoc 💙🧪
After 24 years of work, I’m thrilled to announce the TYMEFLIES dataset, which comprises metagenomes from Lake Mendota (Madison, WI), collected roughly every 10 days (471 samples) for 20 years! @quendi.bsky.social @robinrohwer.bsky.social
rdcu.be/d5put
A thread…
rdcu.be/d5put
A thread…
Two decades of bacterial ecology and evolution in a freshwater lake
Nature Microbiology - A 471-metagenome time series from Lake Mendota in Wisconsin, USA, reveals seasonal and decadal shifts in bacterial functional and ecological dynamics, especially in response...
rdcu.be
January 3, 2025 at 6:29 PM
It has been amazing to continue this long-term research through a PhD with @quendi.bsky.social and a postdoc with @archaeal.bsky.social . Not everyone gets to see a project through like this as an ECR- thanks to supportive PI's and the NSF-PRFB fellowship that let me design my own postdoc 💙🧪
A great welcome back to work after the holidays!
This is my first Nature-family paper and I really liked their publishing model with a supportive, involved, full-time editor. You can see how this paper developed on bioRxiv and in the public review documents 📝 @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social
This is my first Nature-family paper and I really liked their publishing model with a supportive, involved, full-time editor. You can see how this paper developed on bioRxiv and in the public review documents 📝 @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social
OUT NOW Twenty years of bacterial ecology and evolution in a freshwater lake
@archaeal.bsky.social @quendi.bsky.social @robinrohwer.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@archaeal.bsky.social @quendi.bsky.social @robinrohwer.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Two decades of bacterial ecology and evolution in a freshwater lake - Nature Microbiology
A 471-metagenome time series from Lake Mendota in Wisconsin, USA, reveals seasonal and decadal shifts in bacterial functional and ecological dynamics, especially in response to environmental extremes.
www.nature.com
January 3, 2025 at 6:21 PM
A great welcome back to work after the holidays!
This is my first Nature-family paper and I really liked their publishing model with a supportive, involved, full-time editor. You can see how this paper developed on bioRxiv and in the public review documents 📝 @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social
This is my first Nature-family paper and I really liked their publishing model with a supportive, involved, full-time editor. You can see how this paper developed on bioRxiv and in the public review documents 📝 @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social
Thanks to Marc Airhart for the lovely #SciComm about my latest paper. It's awesome to see a professional make your work accessible 🖥️🧬🧪 @texasscience.bsky.social
January 3, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Thanks to Marc Airhart for the lovely #SciComm about my latest paper. It's awesome to see a professional make your work accessible 🖥️🧬🧪 @texasscience.bsky.social
Trying out anvi'o for the first time (!!somehow!!), but I can't find any details on the methods underlying these functions. Like anvi-refine clusters your contigs... based on.. what vectors? what distance? is everyone just using these methods blindly or am I missing something?
🖥️🧬 #microbiome
🖥️🧬 #microbiome
December 10, 2024 at 6:41 PM
Trying out anvi'o for the first time (!!somehow!!), but I can't find any details on the methods underlying these functions. Like anvi-refine clusters your contigs... based on.. what vectors? what distance? is everyone just using these methods blindly or am I missing something?
🖥️🧬 #microbiome
🖥️🧬 #microbiome
Tell me you've organized field campaigns without telling me you've organized field campaigns
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November 30, 2024 at 10:29 PM
Tell me you've organized field campaigns without telling me you've organized field campaigns
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